FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An institute that works on forest health out of Northern Arizona University has a new executive director. Andrew Sánchez Meador was chosen in a national search to lead the Ecological [...]
Ecological Restoration Institute's national search for a new executive director led it right back to Northern Arizona University. Andrew Sánchez Meador was selected to replace ERI founder and longtime Executive Director Wally Covington, who [...]
Land managers are increasingly interested in using lightning-ignited wildfires as a tool to restore forests and reduce fuel loads. But little is known about the effectiveness of managing wildfires to meet restoration goals. For [...]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A Northern Arizona University forestry expert who was ahead of his time in urging communities across the West to thin dense stands of trees and set fire to the landscape [...]
NORTHERN ARIZONA — This is gonna sound crazy. But maybe we can save the forest – and every town in it – by selling wood chips to South Korea. Read More [...]
Wally Covington has been showing people the science of forestry in Flagstaff for years. Read More
The main architect of northern Arizona’s Four Forest Restoration Initiative is set to retire later this month. Wally Covington, a forestry professor at Northern Arizona University, has been a pioneer of modern forest management [...]
At a university known for its forestry studies, choosing one forestry expert that stands above the rest might seem difficult. But Wally Covington has a track record that speaks for itself. Read More [...]
Northern Arizona University says a top forest restoration pioneer is retiring. The university says Wally Covington will retire in January after 45 years there as a professor of forestry and executive director of the [...]
The smoke billowing from the Flagstaff Ranger District near the Fort Valley Trailhead is from a prescribed burn at the experimental forest on Fort Valley Road. Firefighters will be using drip torches to ignite [...]
